Amazon's Alexa talks murder, sex in AI experiment

Re:Amazon's Alexa talks murder, sex in AI experiment by tlrobinson on Friday December 21, 2018 @12:01PM (#18734606)

Uh no. I can't find it now, but there was a famous incident a long time ago (~2005?) where a major chat service (AIM?) released "anonymized" logs for research purposes and people were able to deanonymize some of them.

Consider how easily people get doxed based on tiny shreds of information they post.

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Re:Amazon's Alexa talks murder, sex in AI experiment by SilasX on Friday December 21, 2018 @12:06PM (#18734641)

That's an argument for why the OP is right that it's not anonymous enough, not that it's become the common practice not to regard these as anonymous.

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Re:Amazon's Alexa talks murder, sex in AI experiment by jkaptur on Friday December 21, 2018 @12:32PM (#18734828)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/AOL_search_data_leak

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Re:Amazon's Alexa talks murder, sex in AI experiment by tlrobinson on Friday December 21, 2018 @12:38PM (#18734892)

Ah right, it was search logs, not chat logs. I think chat logs would be even harder to fully anonymize.

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